So, short stories have an even harder time, because they tend to get read during the day, between … - Lorin Stein

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Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?

Lorin Stein

So, short stories have an even harder time, because they tend to get read during the day, between other things. They're interstitial. And yet the content of short stories tends to be very much "nighttime" content.

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I’m a reader who uses fiction as a way of worrying about life.

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I don't know what people should be reading. Only you know what you should be reading.

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The real threat to reading isn’t the time we spend hanging out, it’s the time we spend online.

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Our generation grew up with the Review as a fact of life. It was America’s literary magazine. To our minds, it still is. It has launched our favorite writers. It has made a special claim for the quarterly as such, being both timely and lasting, free of the news of the day or the pressure to please a crowd. Most of all, the Review has shown, repeatedly, that works of imagination can be as stylish and urgent as the flashiest feature reporting, and can do more to refocus our picture of the world.

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If I could change the attitude of young men toward literature, I would want them to read not just for escape, but because literature can be more truthful about things like sex, commitment, and aging. It can be more truthful about the stuff that our parents lied to us (and themselves) about, and the stuff that everyone has to lie about. It can all be dealt with truthfully in fiction and poetry.

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